One of the things I miss about the US, here in Italy, is that people care a bit more about the rules, and obeying them, or changing them. Yeah, you probably won't get caught, but that's ultimately not the point. The point is that it's a bad rule.
I had a friend who lived in Florence for several years before email. Once he was expected a letter from home and it didn't come and didn't come, so he decided to shadow his mailman to see what was going on. Turns out the mailman did as much of his route as he felt like, and then emptied the rest of the mailbag into the Arno at quittin' time.
here in Italy is that people care a bit more about the rules, and obeying them, or changing them
Wait.. what? Not American nor Italian here, but I've been to Italy and judging from the driving there isn't a great amount of care shown for the road rules anyway.
I omitted a comma, and I think you didn't parse my phrase correctly. People are generally more rule-abiding in the US than in Italy, with plenty of positive and negative exceptions in both places. Once you start picking and choosing which rules are sensible, and which ones you can 'get away with', I think it's detrimental to society.
Hehe. Tis similar in Ireland. My partner moved over from England and took a while for him to adapt to things not fulling linking up and the state not always enforcing rules (e.g. avoding paying car tax is much easier in Ireland than UK, etc.).
